MS And Lae New Guinea and Rabaul Location?

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casey jones

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I am at the momet attemping to create the air field at Lae New Guinea, and Rabaul. When I started my project I finally noticed that MS has placed Lae some 20 miles where away from its real location which is on the coast of New Guinia, and MS placed Rabaul in New Guinea when Rabaul is actually in New Britain! I am surprised that no one even caught this glaring error, I have always had a strong interest in Lae, Ameila Earhart took off from there in 1937, I found some photographs of Lae taken the day she landed there, Lae was operated by New Guinea Airways useing Lockheed 10As. MS has Nabzad as Lae! (I may spelled it wrong) My dad parachuted into Nabzad in 1944. Only scenery I saw for Lae was done for FS2002 which was very good but it was not historily acurate...but good.

Cheers

Casey
 
Well, technically there isn't an error at all. Nadzab airport (AYNZ) is nowadays used to service Lae; the old airstrip at Lae itself (AYLA) has been disused for twenty or so years, with the runway having been bisected by Mangola Street (and a roundabout having been constructed on the runway itself); the south part of the old runway has even been built on.

Similarly, the old airstrip at Rabaul (AYRB) is not modelled in FS9 as it was destroyed by a vulcanic eruption in 1994. Instead, the current airport at Tokua (AYTK) is modelled. Its official location is "Tokua, East New Britain province, New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea" - so again the "New Guinea" listing is technically correct.
 
Thank you Robert for that great sites, it will make things easier. Just thought I would try doing this project as Lae has been not even thought of doing for FS9.


Cheers

Casey
 
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